Thanks everyone for all the information. I did manage to find some number 2 pencils that are made in Mexico today and will be trying them. They are paper-mate brand. I also will dig out my mechanical pencils and the leads I have for those. I did think about drawing pencils. I was so surprised to have them tell me at the store that the number 1 was softer than he 2, because I thought they got softer as the numbers got larger and think I might have a number 4 around here someplace in all my art stuff. I think the book, Games, has whiter paper. I hate the yellowish paper the other magazines use.

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I've never knitted anything I could recognize when it was finished. Actually, I've never finished anything, much to my family's relief.